Gravy: Fall 2026

We’re back with part two of Gravy issue 100. If part one, our summer issue, spotlighted some of the best of our publication’s history, this volume speaks even more directly to our mission: to tell stories of the changing American South. 

In these pages, you’ll read a firsthand account of GLP-1 use from a writer whose familial and emotional ties to Southern food run deep. He asks us to consider our judgments of others and most importantly of ourselves, no matter our size. You’ll visit backyard gardens of suburban Dallas where the roots of Korean home cooking continue to grow in American soil and where the author digs into her culture as the rest of the world devours KPop Demon Hunters and Korean fried chicken. And the next time you order a plate of Gulf seafood at a restaurant, we hope you’ll reflect on the hard questions writer Boyce Upholt asks in his examination of the limits of wild-caught Gulf seafood, a story produced in collaboration with the Food and Environmental Reporting Network. You might even find yourself considering whether a sustainable future might come from a fish farm. You’ll also tour Replacements, Ltd., the North Carolina–based purveyor of fine china, silver, and nostalgia. Afterward, you may ask yourself whether you’re holding onto that ten-piece place setting of Grandma’s Lenox china because you really like it or because you just loved her so much and can’t let go. Finally, if you were a hog farmer and got bitten by a tick that caused you to develop the life-altering meat allergy called alpha-gal syndrome, what would that mean for your livelihood?